There was a lot of black-white cultural convergence in America from the 40s through the 80s. Whites adopted a lot of black culture.
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Then gangster rap, the LA riots, and OJ Simpson came up and black and white culture diverged through the 90s.
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all of American culture has fragmented since the 90s, though whites are only a bit less negroified
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I pretty much see this as parallel to the 19th C African Art movement in Europe - art had become "respectable…"
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…and African art was seen as engaging with topics such as sexuality and dominion over other men in a raw & honest way.
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The major issue was the sense that "mainstream" art had ceased to honestly treat these topics.
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